A close up of a broken stained-glass window of Christ Church Cathedral.
A crane topples over on Victoria Street while taking glass up to some windows. No one was hurt and the glass never broke. Victoria Street was closed from 7:30am to later in the evening. This all happen on the Knox Plaza building site. Christchurch October 13, 2014 New Zealand.
A crane topples over on Victoria Street while taking glass up to some windows. No one was hurt and the glass never broke. Victoria Street was closed from 7:30am to later in the evening. This all happen on the Knox Plaza building site. Christchurch October 13, 2014 New Zealand.
A crane topples over on Victoria Street while taking glass up to some windows. No one was hurt and the glass never broke. Victoria Street was closed from 7:30am to later in the evening. This all happen on the Knox Plaza building site. Christchurch October 13, 2014 New Zealand.
A crane topples over on Victoria Street while taking glass up to some windows. No one was hurt and the glass never broke. Victoria Street was closed from 7:30am to later in the evening. This all happen on the Knox Plaza building site. Christchurch October 13, 2014 New Zealand.
A crane topples over on Victoria Street while taking glass up to some windows. No one was hurt and the glass never broke. Victoria Street was closed from 7:30am to later in the evening. This all happen on the Knox Plaza building site. Christchurch October 13, 2014 New Zealand.
A photograph of a stained-glass window of Piko Wholefoods on Barbadoes Street.
A photograph of a stained-glass window of Piko Wholefoods on Barbadoes Street.
A photograph of a stained-glass window inside St John the Baptist Church.
A digitally manipulated photograph of broken windows on Shadbolt House. The photographer comments, "This was close to the start of the demolition of the earthquake damaged Shadbolt House building in the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand. In the bright sun the glass reflected the blue sky, but the broken windows only reflected the blackness of the interior of the empty broken building".
The glass door to the office of Plato Creative in the Cranmer Court building.
The new front desk in the reopened James Hight Library, viewed through the glass of the restricted loans.
The new front desk in the reopened James Hight Library, viewed through the glass of the restricted loans.
A photograph of a stained-glass window next to a door of Piko Wholefoods on Barbadoes Street.
A photograph of a stained-glass window above a door of Piko Wholefoods on Barbadoes Street.
Detail of a stained-glass window in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, seen before the earthquakes.
The new front desk in the reopened James Hight Library, viewed through the glass of the restricted loans.
Glass windows shattered in the magnitude 7 earthquake in Christchurch on Saturday 4-9-2010.
Glass windows shattered in the magnitude 7 earthquake in Christchurch on Saturday 4-9-2010.
A photograph of the stained glass ceiling of the City Council Civic Offices on Manchester Street.
A photograph of a stained glass window of the City Council Civic Offices on Manchester Street.
A close up of a broken stained-glass window of Christ Church Cathedral. Gaps in stonework can be seen around the window.
A man sits in front of two stained-glass windows inside the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, seen before the earthquakes.
View through the window of a hairdressers in Merivale. Inside broken glass and trophies that have fallen from display stands can be seen.
With half his life work destroyed by earthquakes, Christchurch conservator Graham Stewart is on a mission to save what is left of Canterbury's remarkable stained glass history.
A view of Cranmer Square photographed through the glass door of Plato Creative in the Cranmer Court building.
A stained-glass window in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament casts coloured light onto carved angels on the wall, seen before the earthquakes.
Broken stained glass in a window of the ChristChurch Cathedral. The photographer comments, "I only managed to get one picture of the badly earthquake damaged Christchurch Cathedral and I did not want to get the buttresses holding it up like some Medieval siege engine, so I thought this one was perfect. Looking through the window notice that the adjacent wall has gone and the blue windows belong to an office block across the road".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Jo Kerr, where she was sitting when a plate-glass window shattered during an aftershock".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Jo Kerr, where she was sitting when a plate-glass window shattered during an aftershock".